My signature on another writing forum is a quote by Lloyd Alexander. "Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It`s a way of understanding it." There`s a writer I follow T.A. Barron he`s a conservationist who writes mainly children and young adult fantasy novels with a environmental message and...
I don`t see where reading things in your genre could be bad at all. You don`t want to copy anything directly or plagiarize but getting inspiration is fine, and not to uncommon to find it in otheer works that are out there, or trends in the genre at the time. Also learning from other`s work...
As others have, said minions. goons, henchpeople, and my favorite lackeys. Those are all rather generic since other terms like soldiers, mercs, bodyguards, flying monkeys, servents, cultists, and etc kinda depend on the context there being used in. Followers is a good one as well especilly if...
Thanks for the warm welcomes you two. As for Ireth`s question, I write various things. I have been puttering at it through high school but hope to do more with it now that i`m graduating and as I transantoin to collge and onward. I write mainly speculative fictoin with scfi and fanstey as my two...
Found this forum through twitter, and figured it might be interesting to check it out. I am also am somewhat active on another writing fourm but this seemed like a interesting community and the focus on fantasy specfilly could be useful, or at least lead to some interesting dicussoins. Other...